International Summer School in Grammaticalization
Copenhagen, 18-21 August, 2009
Venue: University of Copenhagen, room 24.4.01
Organizer: GradEast Graduate School in Linguistics
Application for participation: Before June 1st, 2009. Please fill out the registration form on this website or send it to GradEast secretary Katrine Reiff Sano at gradeast@hum.ku.dk. We accept applications from PhD students, i.e. graduate students who have finished an MA and are working on a PhD project. Participants should include a one page abstract of their project. Information about admittance will be sent out to applicants no later than June 15th, 2009.
Notice: the deadline for registration has expired.
Course fee
Participation is free of charge. GradEast will pay for all meals during the course (cf. the programme) and lodging at a hostel. However, participants will have to cover their travel costs and meals in connection with arrival and departure.
Credits: 3,5 ECTS
Course certificate
A course certificate will be issued upon completion of the course, based on 80% participation.
Readings
A selection of works on grammaticalization (about 300 pages) will be distributed to the participants upon acceptance. Participants are expected to read these works before the course. For additional readings see the abstracts of the presentations.
Course description
The Summer School presents different views on grammaticalization and illustrates how grammaticalization can be applied in morphology, word order studies and syntax (with a focus on constructions). Referring to a wide range of different languages, the lecturers, who are all leading specialists in grammaticalization, will discuss fundamental issues of grammaticalization on the basis of prevailing theories within the field.
PhD project presentations
The participating PhD students will have the opportunity to present their own projects and discuss them with the lecturers and fellow students. Participants should prepare a presentation of 20 minutes, which will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Lecturers
Elizabeth Closs Traugott is Professor of Linguistics and English at Stanford University, Emerita. She has done research in historical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, socio-historical linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Her current research focuses on ways to bring the theories of grammaticalization and construction grammar to bear on accounts of micro-changes.
Henning Andersen is Professor in Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles. With his much cited and debated article "Abductive and deductive change" (Language 1973) he introduced a new theory of language change which was later developed in a number of studies on phonology, grammar, language and culture and related issues.
Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics at the Ohio State University. His main areas of interest are historical linguistics, Greek linguistics, Balkan linguistics, and morphological theory, with secondary areas of interest being language and ethnicity, Sanskrit linguistics, and Indo-European linguistics in general.
Lene Schøsler is professor of Romance languages at the University of Copenhagen. Her main areas of interest are historical linguistics, grammaticalization, variational linguistics, studies in valency, construction grammar, and corpus linguistics.
Lars Heltoft is professor of Danish language and linguistics at the University of Roskilde. He works with the research group Danish Functional Linguistics (Copenhagen and Roskilde) and has published a number of works on functional grammar and grammaticalisation from a functional perspective.
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen is professor of Slavic languages at the University of Copenhagen and head of GradEast. He has done research in text linguistics, Russian nominal semantics and grammar as well as Slavic contrastive and historical grammar. His contributions to general linguistics include works on morphological theory, grammaticalization and the motivation for language change.